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The following program is a PBS Wisconsin Original Production.

Frederica Freyberg:

The plight of mental health in today’s youth continues to grow.

Reggie Lahti:

You can’t walk through a classroom without seeing someone who might be struggling.

Frederica Freyberg:

Whereby access to a gun during a mental health crisis means life or death and challenging the stigma of opioids.

Ryan Gorman:

The vast majority of our patients are gainfully employed. Family, lots of homeowners, renters, yeah. They’re not the person that most people picture.

Frederica Freyberg:

I’m Frederica Freyberg. Tonight on “Here & Now” we report on the state of student mental health and the resources left wanting. A psychiatrist weighs in on a bipartisan bill training gun sellers to identify a mental health crisis. And Fentanyl has shot opioid deaths to an all-time high, but interventions do work. It’s “Here & Now” for May 12.

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Funding for “Here & Now” is provided by the Focus Fund for Journalism and Friends of PBS Wisconsin.